My friend is obsessed with Nightmare Before Christmas, so for her birthday I made her a Jack Skellington cake. It's my first attempt at cake decorating and I was really proud. Let me know what you think!

The best, most tasty way to create black icing is to start with chocolate icing and add black food coloring gel. If you start with white icing and color it with black gel, it uses alot of the gel, and sometimes gets a nasty aftertaste.

The Jack Skellington cake is great! My sister loves, loves, loves Nightmare before Christmas also, and I made her a Jack Skellington head cake a couple years ago. This year (next week actually) she is getting a dozen Jack Skellington head cupcakes.